When others must choose
Subtitle: deciding for patients without capacity.
Publisher: New York State Task Force on Life and the Law
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Informed consent (Medical law) -- New York (State).; Capacity and disability -- New York (State).; Medical ethics.; Patient advocacy.
Notes: "March 1992."

Includes bibliographical references.

Microfiche. Albany, N.Y. : New York State Library, filmed by Spaulding Company, Inc., Document Conversion Services, 1996. 4 microfiche.
Table of contents: value: The clinical and social context for surrogate decisions; value: Deciding about treatment: rights and responsibilities under existing law; value: Ethical choices, values, and dilemmas; value: Deciding in advance; value: Initiating the surrogate's authority: the determination of incapacity; value: Identifying the surrogate; value: Guidance for surrogate decisions; value: Deciding for children and newborns; value: Bioethics review committees; value: Deciding for adults without surrogates; value: Patients with mental disabilities; value: The obligations of health care professionals; value: Responding to conscience objections; value: Medical futility: defining the limits of the duty to treat; value: Some special issues; value: Withdrawing and withholding treatment; value: The moral significance of intentions; value: Decisions about artificial nutrition and hydration; value: Euthanasia; value: Merging the DNR law with policies for surrogate decisions; value: Promoting surrogate decisions.